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Sensei Article Featured in Law Practice Magazine

July 20, 2017

If you look at the “Hot Buttons” column in the July/August 2017 issue of the ABA’s Law Practice Magazine, you will find the article “Running with the Machines: AI in the Practice of Law” written by Sensei’s Sharon Nelson and John Simek. The Law Practice Magazine is a bi-monthly publication of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Division.

Excerpt: Back in 2015, in this column, we wrote a piece titled “How Will Watson’s Children Impact the Future of Law Practice?” What a lot has happened in two years! The children of Watson and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to spawn at an ever-accelerating rate.

Only recently has genuine real world usage of AI in law firms begun to flourish. Amid the initial hype, about 95 percent of what was ballyhooed as AI, in our judgement, was not. Even today there is an astonishing amount of hype – everyone wants to say they’ve boarded the AI train. As we write, an article from InfoWorld was just published titled “Artificially Inflated: It’s Time to Call BS on AI.” While great clickbait, we think the title overstates the case. The peaks and troughs of AI are well documented and, as we are now at a peak, the hype factor gets greater, while the reality (often very good) is lost in the noise of the hype.

Read the entire article here.